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Teaching design--9A U7 Tom Sawyer paints the fence
Topic
Oxford English 9A Module4 U7 Tom Sawyer paints the fence
Period
Period 1
Type
Reading
Theme
“Human and society”
“Representative writers and works in history of literature”
Guiding principles
New curriculum standards; Core competence; View of English learning activities
Curriculum resources
Textbooks;PPT;Videos
Teaching goals
Language competence
To obtain the basic information of the story.
To retell the story with the help of “the plot of the story” and act it out.
To analyze the main characters’ words and behaviour and judge their thoughts and feelings.
Thinking quality
To judge Tom’s and Ben’s behaviour and character and to think
critically.
Cultural awareness
To know about the background information of Mark Twain’s works and taste the humorous language of Mark Twain;
To appreciate the great works in history of American literature.
Learning ability
To arouse interest in reading English literature and develop good reading habits;
To learn and apply a new reading strategy “Dialogues in stories” to understand the main characters’ thoughts and feelings.
The analysis of the teaching material
The passage is a story “Tom Sawyer paints the fence” from Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
What:Tom has a task of painting the fence on Saturday. He tricks Ben into painting
the fence for him and get a win-win result.
Why:The story reflects the character of kids. It can arouse students’ critical
thinking about people or things around. From the story, students can also
appreciate the humorous language style of Mark Twain and get interested in reading
English literature.
How:The passage is a narration, which can be divided into three parts: beginning,
middle and ending. It mainly contains two boys’ dialogues and uses lots of verbs to
describe the progress of the story. It also uses colourful sentence patterns such as
attributive clauses and questions to show the characters’ re